Open AccessFor showing to U.S. and Brazilian people: a memory of bilateral relations through the social network Flickr
Author(s) -
João Gilberto Neves Saraiva
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
tempo e argumento
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.242
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 2175-1803
DOI - 10.5965/2175180306122014308
Subject(s) - forgetting , politics , mythology , set (abstract data type) , social network (sociolinguistics) , sociology , media studies , political science , history , psychology , law , social media , computer science , cognitive psychology , classics , programming language
This paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy’s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It establishes connections between the production of memory, the U.S. political conjuncture, and U.S. political myths, such as Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy. It also discusses ways of remembering and forgetting several events in bilateral relations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, besides the positions published on the social network regarding Brazilian politics and history.Keywords: Social Networks; Flickr; President – United States